These posts have often been met with disbelief. Many of this blog’s readers cannot imagine that law enforcement would waste their limited resources on something so trivial — or even that it is possible to be arrested and convicted of drunk driving on a bike.

The video, taken by a bicyclist watching another bicyclist pulled over by a Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle cop, shows the man given field sobriety tests by the officer — 3 times (which he appears to perform well). He is then also given a field breath test – two separate batteries of testing. (Note: As riding a bicycle does not require a driver’s license, there is no "implied consent" authorizing a breath test.) During the questioning and testing, another LAPD motorcycle cop arrives, presumably as backup — followed a few minutes later by yet another officer in a police car. The bicycle rider is then arrested for drunk driving, handcuffed and driven away.